I think the anti-natalists prefer a universe full of paperclips.
Actually, anti-natalists seem to have a thing for coathangers rather than paperclips. (Sorry, too tempting :-P )
Z._M._Davis: I’m thinking specifically of, e.g., Dennett’s discussion of “‘Filling in’ Versus Finding Out” in Consciousness Explained, but I’m having trouble right now finding a juicy bit to quote. The basic idea is that it’s problematic to think of vision as being like a camera that projects content onto a screen in the brain, because that just prompts the question of how that internal projection is seen—and we have a regress.
I was just reading the Wikipedia articles about that stuff. Some good summaries are in the Multiple Drafts Model article, and the “image-in-brain” model that Dennett criticizes is what he calls Cartesian theater.
I think the anti-natalists prefer a universe full of paperclips.
Actually, anti-natalists seem to have a thing for coathangers rather than paperclips. (Sorry, too tempting :-P )
Z._M._Davis: I’m thinking specifically of, e.g., Dennett’s discussion of “‘Filling in’ Versus Finding Out” in Consciousness Explained, but I’m having trouble right now finding a juicy bit to quote. The basic idea is that it’s problematic to think of vision as being like a camera that projects content onto a screen in the brain, because that just prompts the question of how that internal projection is seen—and we have a regress.
I was just reading the Wikipedia articles about that stuff. Some good summaries are in the Multiple Drafts Model article, and the “image-in-brain” model that Dennett criticizes is what he calls Cartesian theater.